The ceremonies celebrated a number of awards and competitions involving student ASABE members across the globe. AEM was the main sponsor of the AEM/ASABE Student Awards Breakfast that recognized this year’s student achievers.

“The future of agriculture engineering looks to be in good hands,” said AEM Director of Materials Management John Wagner. “AEM is proud to be associated with highlighting the accomplishments of these talented young students.”

More than 200 people were in attendance at the AEM/ASABE Student Awards Breakfast, which featured a keynote presentation from Chris Bursiek, manager of product safety standards for John Deere, an AEM member company. Bursiek, an active member of AEM’s agriculture technical committees and ASABE’s technical committees for standards development, shared his thoughts and perspectives on the opportunities afforded to him in his career that are also open to the student engineers in attendance.

Among the competitions recognized at the AEM/ASABE Student Awards Breakfast were: